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After not making any posts for quite some time, I suppose I should start again. The first being about two different things, combined together. Lucid Lynx Ubuntu, with the Elementary-Desktop installed.
I’m a rather avid reader of www.linux-mag.com and as such, I was reading it yesterday morning before heading out of the house. What I was reading, was a post by a certain Christopher Smart. He was talking about how the Elementary Desktop was very good, has made vast improvements on not just Gnome, but applications inside Gnome like Nautilus to name just one.
I decided I would try to install this new desktop and see what all the fuss was about. Mr Smart had mentioned that the whole project started by trying to modify Linux, to look like OSX, so I wasn’t too convinced that I would enjoy the desktop. After all, I’m not OSX’s biggest fan by a long shoot. Yeah the dock is clever, but the rest of the OSX, from a Unix point of view, a power user point of view and a customizability point of view, it’s crap! The good parts about OSX though, are it’s looks.
Elementary is by far the biggest enhancement I’ve seen to any of the major desktops in the last 12 months. Sure KDE4 has grown and grown and gotten more and more usable, gnome has become a little friendlier, both to the eye and to the user, but Elementary has taken Gnome to another level. Simply put, Elementary is what Gnome should have been under it’s own steam. The fonts are incredibly clear, the colour scheme is not only conservative, but it’s attractive as well. Compiz works perfectly with it, to make the Elementary Desktop very similar indeed to OSX in looks, but thankfully not too much so in behavioural qualities. Docky gets installed when installing the Elementary Desktop, which is actually rather cool. I’ve tried a few different docks over the years, just to see if anyone other than Apple could get it working, or not, and up to now, no one really had, not without a great amount of effort at least, which is something that most users do not wish to actually do.
In probably the shortest and simplest summary of a post I’ve ever done, I am going to say, that this desktop, is fantastic, go download and install it!
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Well it’s been a few years now since we did much with this site, we left the blog in tact for reference and historical purposes, but in general, Symsys as a business has been closed for at least a couple of years now. We continue to host a few websites for people still and we make the odd blog post now and again, but for the most part, Symsys is now defunct. We are no longer a limited company in New Zealand, because we are in fact, no longer in New Zealand.
The main website is being taken out of commission very soon, the blog has been upgraded to the latest version of word press, as you can see there are a couple of little bugs in our template from the upgrade, they will be fixed in due course, the colour scheme and things may change slightly too, but in general, the blog will remain. www.symsysit.com will now re-direct to inform.symsysit.com and so forth.
Projects like SBend will continue to move forward and be developed, however they will not be done under Symsys, instead, they will be developed under our new brand, which as yet, is to be decided, but will be based here in the UK.
Keep your eye on the blog for further information of where Symsys is headed, how things are going to change and how you can take advantage of the great offers that our new company will be making.
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